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FSC100 Test 1: Questions & Verified Answers (100%)
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FSC100 Test 1: Questions & Verified Answers (100%)Hot Zone Right Ans - The immediate area in which the crime took place
Warm Zones Right Ans - Adjacent areas, around the hot zone, the larger
perimeter
LOSER Right Ans - Listen Observe Search Evaluate Record
Three Tier Response Right Ans - dispatching all three branches of
emergency response, including police departments, EMS, and fire
departments
Substantiates Right Ans - provides evidence for or proves truth
Forensic Right Ans - relating to or dealing with the application of scientific
knowledge to legal problems especially relating to criminal evidence
Systematic Right Ans - study of the structure and behaviour of the physical
and natural world through observation and experimentation
Evidence Right Ans - Refers to anything that can give or substantiate
information in a legal investigation
Associative Evidence Right Ans - Any evidence that places an individual at
a scene and/or with a victim
Class Evidence Right Ans - Evidence that requires classification into a more
narrow range (hair, blood, urine, things human and nonhuman)
Trace Right Ans - Physical evidence that has been extracted from another
substance and is in small amounts (fibres, dirt...etc)
Latent Evidence Right Ans - DNA, fingerprints, footprints, tire tracks...etc
often not visible without some means such as electronics (can not be collected
like trace evidence)
Electronic Evidence Right Ans - Any information transmitted by or stored
in an electronic device.
, Indicative Evidence Right Ans - Physical evidence that proves that a certain
period of time has elapsed (rate of body decomposing)
Circumstantial Right Ans - Collection of facts and observations that infer
the culpability of an individual but MAY ALSO BE coincidental — does not
establish guilt or that crime has been committed. (fingerprint on bag, blood at
scene, suspect being in area of crime...etc)
Witnesses Right Ans - a person who sees a crime take place
Indirect Witness Right Ans - a person who did not witness the crime but
knows the people or objects involved (E.X. bus driver that can identify a
regular passenger)
Direct Witness Right Ans - a witness who saw the crime (aka an eyewitness
who brings testimonial evidence or observational testimony)
Expert Witness Right Ans - specialist who processes physical evidence for a
legal investigation
Character witness Right Ans - Vouches under oath to good reputation of
another person often in the community where that person lives (Usually to
say defendant is a good person)
Warrant Right Ans - document from the court signed by a judge or
magistrate that outlines: specifically what offense has been committed, the
place to be searched, and what people or things are to be seized. To be
executed immediately as there is an expiration date
Plain view doctrine Right Ans - Items observed in plain view can also be
seized. Investigators can not be invasive or intrusive (if drawers or closets
need to be opened unauthorized by the warrant, the seizure would be deemed
unlawful)
Chain of Custody Right Ans - Process of safeguarding the physical evidence
is referred to as maintaining the chain of custody to prevent unauthorized
persons from accessing, tampering, altering evidence
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